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Know when Claude's usage limits change.

The 5-hour window, the weekly cap, the surprise flushes and the boosts that quietly expire. Reset Radar keeps the whole picture in one place and tells you the moment anything moves.

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The trend

Claude's limit headroom over time

How much you can actually use, indexed to each limit's introduction level (100). Steps up are doublings and boosts; steps down are promotions ending. Dashed means announced or projected, not yet history.

Diamonds mark manual counter flushes. Time-boxed boosts are shown at their full value; the March 2026 doubling applied off-peak hours only. Source links per event in the timeline below.

The record

Every limit change on record

Announced changes first, then history, newest on top. Projections are marked and never mixed in with facts. Click any row for details and sources.

What the markers mean

Past change that gave you more headroom

Past change that reduced it

Other past change

Announced: dated, not yet in effect

Projected: our reading of the pattern, not an announcement

SuddenThe change arrived with no advance notice; Announced aheadmeant you could plan for it

HitMissedHow past projections resolved against reality

In the chart above, alternating green and blue dashes mean the two limits sit at the same level right now.

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Your clock

When is your next reset?

Limits roll per user, so only you know your anchors. Enter them once; they stay in your browser and never leave it.

Local time. Your 5-hour window resets five hours after this.

When your weekly cap last reset. Claude Code shows it under /usage as "resets on".

Next 5-hour reset
Waiting for your times
Next weekly reset
Waiting for your times

Estimates from the documented mechanics. The numbers inside your Claude apps are the authoritative ones.

The mechanics

How Claude's limits actually work

Your session starts with your first message, and the counter resets five hours later. It rolls per user; there is no global clock. Claude Code's /usage command and the app's usage panel show your own next reset time.

Questions

Questions people ask

When does Claude usage reset?

The 5-hour window resets five hours after your first message, per user. Weekly caps reset on a rolling 7-day anchor. There is no global reset o'clock; your own apps show your times, and the calculator above works them out from your anchors.

Why did my usage bar reset early?

Usually one of four things: your 5-hour window rolled over, your weekly cap reset on its anchor, Anthropic flushed everyone's counters (as on May 15, 2026), or a promotion started or ended. Check the timeline; if nothing matches, report it and watch whether others saw the same.

Where does the data come from?

Anthropic's status page and announcements, press and community documentation (linked on every event), and reader reports, which we only ever show in aggregate. Curated facts and crowd signal are always labeled apart.

Can you tell whether a reset hit everyone or just me?

Partly. Reports carry plan and optional country, so a spike across plans and countries within minutes reads as global, while a cluster in one plan or region points at a scoped change. One report alone proves little, which is why the signal meter shows volume.

Is this an official Anthropic site?

No. Reset Radar is independent, with no affiliation to Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC; we reference it only to describe what we track, and your own Claude apps remain the authoritative source.

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